AVIATION WEEK’s 2008 MRO Military Conference assembles military and industry leaders in a unique Working Group Seminar designed to develop a realistic plan of action to improve readiness, availability, cost, and cycle time for U.S. fighters, airlift/tanker, rotor wing and complex electronic aircraft.
- LEADERSHIP PANEL
- Gen. Bruce Carlson, Commander, U.S. Air Force Materiel Command
- William Begert, SVP, Pratt & Whitney
- John E. "Ed" Boyington, President, Vertex Aerospace/L-3 Communications
- Marillyn A. Hewson, EVP Global Sustainment, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co
- MG Carl Jensen, Deputy Commander –USMC Forces Command
- MG Arthur Morrill, Deputy Vice, Defense Logistics Agency
Participants will be guided through a two-day working session designed to identify truly unique approaches to continuous process improvement, public/private partnerships, PMA/DER utilization, and strategic supply chain management. Together, these working groups will define an action plan to drive improvement in all four areas during the coming 12 months.
- Each group will be led by a military and industry subject matter expert.
- Fighters, led by RDML Michael Hardee, Commander, Fleet Readiness Center, CNAF, and VDML (Ret) Charles W. Moore Jr., VP Global Sustainment, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
- Airlift/Tankers, led by Gen. (Ret) Charles T. Robertson, VP- Support Systems, Boeing Integrated Defense
- Rotor Wing, led by Shane Eddy, VP/Chief Service Officer, Bell Helicopter Textron
- Electronically Complex Aircraft, led by John E. "Ed" Boyington, President, Vertex Aerospace/L-3 Communicationsand BG Arthur B. Cameron III, Commander-309th Maintenance Wing, Hill AFB.
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- Keynote speakers for the conference include:
- Driving Improvement in Miltiary MRO Availability, Readiness, Cost and Cycle Time - VDML (Ret) Walter B. Massenburg, former Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, and Chief Operating Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise
- “Roots of Radical Islam,” a presentation by Col (Ret) James D. Graham
- MRO Military Business Forecast, Hal Chrisman, principal, AeroStrategy LLC
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